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AGI, from First Principles

What is AGI? In short, Artificial General Intelligence is the name given to computer systems that replicate the overall cognitive abilities of a smart human. In particular, to capture the unique

The 7 Deadly Sins of AGI Design

The term ‘AGI’ has been badly distorted and abused, be it out of ignorance or for fund-raising purposes. It properly refers to systems that can autonomously learn to perform novel human-level

The Insanity of Huge Language Models

Microsoft is re-commissioning the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in order to feeds just one of its next generation AI data centers [ref]. Anthropic.ai’s

Imagine

Imagine.   Imagine an AGI teaching itself to be a Ph.D. level cancer researcher. Now imagine making a million copies of this. Imagine a million Ph.D. level

What is AGI

What is (Real) AGI?

  Let’s start at the beginning. Why do we even need this term? In 1956 when the term ‘AI’ was coined, the ambition was to

What is AGI

What is AGI, really? And how do we get there… There’s a lot of confusion regarding ‘AGI’. In 2002 we (Goertzel, Legg, Voss) coined the

Cognitive AI

Cognitive AI is an approach to AI (and AGI) that focuses on, and aims to implement the unique properties of human intelligence — those features that allow

LLMs are not the Path to AGI

A bold statement. Its validity hinges on the definition of ‘AGI’: “A computer system that can learn incrementally, in real time, by itself, to reliably perform

What is AGI

The Criticality of Incremental Learning

Real AGI needs the ability to learn new knowledge and skills incrementally in real-time. Whether AGIs are employed as researchers, workers, personal assistants or some other function, a common requirement is that they are able to adapt to changing situations and requirements on the fly, and to do so autonomously.